Wand question

[Tamara]

No: HPFGUIDX 130483

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "quigonginger" 
<quigonginger at y...> wrote:
> I'm having a Star Wars weekend with my 9-year-old Godson, and out 
of 
> no where, whilst playing with my CoS Lego set, he asked me "how do 
> they know which end the magic comes out of?"  
> 
> I had never thought of this before.  I would assume a wand can be 
held 
> backwards, and that pointing a wand the wrong way would cast the 
curse 
> in the opposite direction.  Are they tapered (like a conductor's 
> baton) or do they have a definite "handle"?  Do they just feel it? 
> 
> Any thoughts?  Now he's got me curious.
> 
> Ginger, trying to talk Star Wars and Harry Potter at the same time 
> with a kid who changes subjects at the drop of a hat and always 
uses 
> pronouns without antecedents.

In the film at least, the wands seem to be bulbous at one end. But I 
don't remember any canon. Maybe it is just sort of part of the magic, 
like how each wizard/witch can tell their own wand from others very 
easily.

Tamara